Yale's

Pure Rhymes

Words that have identical vowel-based rhyme sounds in the tonic syllable. Moreover, that tonic syllable must start with a different consonantal sound.

as hard as nails
bed of nails
hard as nails
off the rails
out of one's sails
take the wind out of one's sails
turn the scales
heads or tails

Pure Rhymes — Set #1 of 1

End Rhymes

Words that have a pure rhyme on their last syllable only.

End Rhymes — Set #1 of 4

End Rhymes — Set #2 of 4

on one's coattails
ride on one's coattails

End Rhymes — Set #3 of 4

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Near Rhymes

Words that "almost" rhyme on the vowel-based rhyme sound of the stressed syllable like: be/eat or maybe/shapely.

of no avail
to little avail
to no avail
out on bail
skip bail
devil is in the detail
without fail
within hail
coffin nail
fight tooth and nail
pay on the nail
tooth and nail
beyond the pale
third rail
set sail
no sale
on sale
white sale
off the scale
to scale
between two shakes of a lamb's tail
coat tail
cows tail
get off one's tail
head nor tail
in two shakes of a lamb's tail
turn tail
blaze a trail
like a beached whale

Near Rhymes — Set #1 of 47

Near Rhymes — Set #2 of 47

make waves

Near Rhymes — Set #3 of 47

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Mosaic Rhymes

Rhymes made up of more than one word. For instance, "jealous" and "tell us" or "shaky" and "make me."

One-syllable words do not have mosaic rhymes.

Mosaic Rhymes — Set #1 of 1